WEEK ONE, Jan 12, 14: Course Introduction, Intercultural Communication
TWO, Jan 19, 21: A Three-Step Reading/Writing Method AND The Writing Situation: TAP-Topic, Audience, Purpose, Short 1 is due on Thursday, Jan 21
THREE, Jan 26, 28: Writing personal profiles for friends, family, social media, and school and job applications. The personal profile essay will be due on Thursday, Feb. 18. Short 2 is due on Tuesday, Feb. 9 and will be a short paper about Dr. Biber's lectures. Your personal profile essay will be due on Thursday, Feb. 18.
FOUR, Feb 2, 4: During this week, we will not meet for our regular classes on Tuesday and Thursday. Instead, you will have a personal meeting with me in my office (EH 257) to discuss the book you have chosen to read for the semester and to review your personal profile essay. Also you will attend your choice of ONE of these two lectures by Dr. Douglas Biber, an expert in writing, linguistics, and grammar from Northern Arizona University:
1. Wednesday, February 3rd, 5:30-7:00 pm, EH 229
2. Thursday, February 4th, 9:00-10:15, SS 378.
*In response to Douglas Biber's lecture, you will write a 150-word short paper after taking notes and using the Three-Step Process and TAP to guide your writing. Here is Dr. Biber's website: http://dougbiber.weebly.com.
FIVE, Feb 9, 11: "Naming and describing" with adjective phrases: adding color and detail with ing, ed, and appositive noun phrases. Short 2 is due on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
SIX, Feb 16, 18: Writing about significant experiences: memoirs, travel, humorous, conflict & challenge, contemplative and spiritual, nature & wilderness; Your personal profile essay is due on Thursday, Feb. 18.
SEVEN, Feb 23, 25: How to continue development of your course online portfolio
EIGHT, Mar 1, 3: Your personal and writing voice: metaphors, analogies, scenarios; Short 3 is due on Thursday, March 3
*SPRING BREAK: MARCH 7-11
NINE, Mar 15, 17: Writing arguments & Critical Thinking; Your significant experience essay is due on March 17
TEN, Mar 22, 24: Conditionals and hedge words and phrases; thinking logically; multiple viewpoints & triangulation
ELEVEN, Mar 29, Mar 31: Commenting, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing; Short 4 is due on Tuesday, March 29
TWELVE, Apr 5, Apr 7: Writing a Book Review
THIRTEEN, Apr 12, Apr 14: More sentence choices AND editing, revising, punctuation, copyediting; Your argumentative essay is due on April 14; Short 5 is due on Tuesday, April 12
FOURTEEN, Apr 19, Apr 21: Presenting your online portfolios to the class, Put Short 6 directly in your own final online portfolio. You won't post it on a sidebar page on our course wiki.
Final Exams Week: The final draft of your online portfolio, including the final draft of your book review will be due on or before Thursday, April 28 (the last day of final exams)
TWO, Jan 19, 21: A Three-Step Reading/Writing Method AND The Writing Situation: TAP-Topic, Audience, Purpose, Short 1 is due on Thursday, Jan 21
THREE, Jan 26, 28: Writing personal profiles for friends, family, social media, and school and job applications. The personal profile essay will be due on Thursday, Feb. 18. Short 2 is due on Tuesday, Feb. 9 and will be a short paper about Dr. Biber's lectures.
Your personal profile essay will be due on Thursday, Feb. 18.
FOUR, Feb 2, 4: During this week, we will not meet for our regular classes on Tuesday and Thursday. Instead, you will have a personal meeting with me in my office (EH 257) to discuss the book you have chosen to read for the semester and to review your personal profile essay. Also you will attend your choice of ONE of these two lectures by Dr. Douglas Biber, an expert in writing, linguistics, and grammar from Northern Arizona University:
1. Wednesday, February 3rd, 5:30-7:00 pm, EH 229
2. Thursday, February 4th, 9:00-10:15, SS 378.
*In response to Douglas Biber's lecture, you will write a 150-word short paper after taking notes and using the Three-Step Process and TAP to guide your writing. Here is Dr. Biber's website: http://dougbiber.weebly.com.
FIVE, Feb 9, 11: "Naming and describing" with adjective phrases: adding color and detail with ing, ed, and appositive noun phrases. Short 2 is due on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
SIX, Feb 16, 18: Writing about significant experiences: memoirs, travel, humorous, conflict & challenge, contemplative and spiritual, nature & wilderness; Your personal profile essay is due on Thursday, Feb. 18.
SEVEN, Feb 23, 25: How to continue development of your course online portfolio
EIGHT, Mar 1, 3: Your personal and writing voice: metaphors, analogies, scenarios; Short 3 is due on Thursday, March 3
*SPRING BREAK: MARCH 7-11
NINE, Mar 15, 17: Writing arguments & Critical Thinking; Your significant experience essay is due on March 17
TEN, Mar 22, 24: Conditionals and hedge words and phrases; thinking logically; multiple viewpoints & triangulation
ELEVEN, Mar 29, Mar 31: Commenting, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing; Short 4 is due on Tuesday, March 29
TWELVE, Apr 5, Apr 7: Writing a Book Review
THIRTEEN, Apr 12, Apr 14: More sentence choices AND editing, revising, punctuation, copyediting; Your argumentative essay is due on April 14; Short 5 is due on Tuesday, April 12
FOURTEEN, Apr 19, Apr 21: Presenting your online portfolios to the class, Put Short 6 directly in your own final online portfolio. You won't post it on a sidebar page on our course wiki.
Final Exams Week: The final draft of your online portfolio, including the final draft of your book review will be due on or before Thursday, April 28 (the last day of final exams)